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...truth, though, there's voodoo afoot, black magic in the air and an ominous sense of doom hanging over Harvard. This team may win every conference game it plays, it may overwhelm Boston College, it may even get a trip to Madison, Wisc. for the Final Four...
...film takes Sinatra from his childhood days in New Jersey through his back-from-retirement concert at Madison Square Garden in 1974. Most of the familiar movie-bio cliches are here -- young Frank argues with skeptical parents over his show-biz dreams ("I can do this! I can be someone!") -- but so is a lot of flavorful, crisply told detail. The young singer goes on the road as part of a quartet put together by Major Bowes; picks up work in a club where he has to wheel his own piano accompanist around the room; is discovered by bandleader Harry...
...Were you surprised when they booed you at the Bob Dylan concert in New York City's Madison Square Garden two weeks after you ripped up the Pope's picture...
...tension between these polarities crackles over the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are "created equal," with "certain unalienable rights," among which is "the pursuit of happiness," no less. We also have a government so designed that "rage" for "improper or wicked project((s))," as James Madison put it, may not easily sweep through it. In the poetry of action, that tension of the soul between the hero each of us aspires to be and the transgressors we too often are is captured in the Leatherstocking tales. Boys and college students don't know how good the saga they...
Four years ago I visited the U.S. for the first time. I arrived in New York alone, weighed down with a heavy backpack, with no idea where I was to stay. The prospect of a cheap, insalubrious downtown hostel enticed me, so I headed for Madison Square Garden. Spat out onto the street from the subway, I had no idea where to go; people rushed past and into me without interest; and, of course, I couldn't look at a map. Everyone told me that--never look at a map on the street. Nascent paranoia was restrained as I made...